If we were faultless we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate.
We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
The person I like most is the one who points out my defects
[On golf:] One of the most distressing defects of civilization.
Doubtless criticism was originally benignant, pointing out the beauties of a work rather that its defects. The passions of men have made it malignant, as a bad heart of Procreates turned the bed, the symbol of repose, into an instrument of torture.
I am Jose Mourinho and I don't change. I arrive with all my qualities and my defects.
You marry the day you realize the human defects of your love.
When the media would call and want to interview me, I thought it was 'cause they really wanted to find out what I thought about things. I thought it was because they really wanted to find out who I am. That's not what they wanted. They already in their minds knew who I was and they didn't like it, and they wanted face-to-face opportunities to expose my defects and my problems and my racism and bigotry and all this.
Only the great can afford to have great defects.
To be perfect, one lacks only a defect.
What we'd consider a positive role model, I think it's impossible to actually be a role model. You'll have your flaws or defects of character, regardless. You just speak like a positive role model, and that's just something that you're being conscious of, and you make the decision, "I want to say positive things. "
No one finds fault with defects which are the result of nature.
Each one projects his own defects over the others, each one see in other his own defects.
Faults and defects every work of man must have.
All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects.
Such is the imperfect nature of man! such spots are there on the disc of the clearest planet; and eyes like Miss Scatcherd's can only see those minute defects, and are blind to the full brightness of the orb.
Happy the man when he has not the defects of his qualities.
A satyagrahi turns the searchlight inward relentlessly to weed out all the defects that may be lying hidden there still.
No matter where you live, the biggest defect we human beings have is our shortsightedness. We don't see what we could be.
There is some risk to increase birth defects if you do a lot of outdoor gardening when you are pregnant. That can increase rates of toxoplasmosis.